Deep in the River

Winner of the 6th Douban Reading Essay Contest
A masterpiece of short stories by Donglai, a potential novelist born in the 1990s ◎ Editor's recommendation★ The first short story collection by Donglai, the first prize winner of the 6th Douban Reading Essay Contest.
★ "Deep in the River" uses rich, elegant language to salvage memories and depict a variety of dreamlike lives. Dong Lai's realistic stories flow with surreal rhythms and colors, achieving a perfect harmony between popular appeal and literary qualities.
How can a damp love last forever? How can a life "unlocked" by freedom continue? The novel attempts to frame every ordinary moment, allowing life to reveal its texture and representation.
◎ Introduction: A little girl from another place goes through the forest and across the river to explore and search for someone, a strange human skin kite lies deep in the memory of a girl in the factory, a troubled girl's life experience is entangled, a boy drowns on a hot afternoon, close friends drift away and separate... The past is always shrouded in a filter, and writers continue to add details to it. It seems that we can also recall and recover the lost time in fiction.
“Many things in the past, when they happened, I let them go carelessly and didn’t pay attention to them. But after a while, when they have been in the drawer and become old and yellow and less clear, I will take them out again, examine and annotate them. In the repeated recollection, I add meaning to them, and ordinary moments become extraordinary, becoming a representation of life. But because of this, the past is shrouded in a filter, and in the repeated aesthetic appreciation, fictional details are constantly added, making this filter thicker and thicker until it is distorted.” - "Jinhuidui"

2019-05-01

四川文艺出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

176

9787541153617